Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

My mom was a single parent.

There are so many single moms and dads out there, and we are all just trying to pick up the pieces together. It's hard.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

If I'm diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

Like every mom, you try to juggle, but I also want people to know that you don't have to be a superhero. I'm not a superhero; I have a team of people who help me. I have a great family support system.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

I don't think I realised how stressed I was, being a single parent. It was really, really stressful. It's not easy on anybody.

We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's best for ourselves, and there's a certain sort of comfort in knowing that you're not in it by yourself.

My family and God is my strength.

I have people I talk to on a regular basis about what's going on in my life, what am I struggling with, and where my faith is at.

Having a lot of friends and family around you - that's all a part of wellness.

My mum went above and beyond to make up for the fact I didn't have two parents. I was very lucky.

I've got good family support.

I'm an only child raised by a single mom. She's always been supportive of what I wanted to do.

I suffer from depression and anxiety, and having a show and having a character that portrays a young woman who is dealing with that and the consequences of it - how it affects her friendships and her relationships with her mom and her sister - it's beautiful to see that.

There's a lot of things in Formula One that can stress you and it's important to have good family and good support from home as well. I'm really glad that I have that.

My aunt, who plays the role of my mother now, she got her Ph.D.

My mother graduated from high school in 1969, and on January 3, 1971, she gave birth to me. She was married later that year, but by the time I was 10, she was a divorced single mother of two young boys. To make ends meet, we moved in with my grandparents, who were also housing two of my mother's siblings and their kids.

It's tough working as a single parent, but I'm lucky enough to have chunks of time when I'm at home and a huge circle of friends and family, although my biggest extravagance is child care.

I've seen the best and worst of times. My parents were divorced when I was a child. I was brought up by my father.

With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

Everyone can relate to loving someone and hating them in the same moment - husbands, wives, partners, siblings, parents, friends. It's kind of universal in that way.

My faith, my family, my friends - that's where I get my strength.